Quantifying the spatial temporal variability of annual streamflow and meteorological changes in eastern Ontario and southwestern Quebec using wavelet analysis and GIS

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 499, Issue , 2013, Pages 27-40

  Adamowski, Jan ^a   Adamowski, Kaz ^b   Prokoph, Andreas ^c,d  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d SPEEDSTAT   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; GIS; Ontario; Precipitation; Quebec; Streamflow

Indexed keywords

CROSS-WAVELET TRANSFORM; HIGH SPATIAL DENSITY; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; METEOROLOGICAL RECORDS; METEOROLOGICAL STATION; ONTARIO; QUEBEC; STREAMFLOW VARIATIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOODS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); WATER RESOURCES; WAVELET ANALYSIS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

STREAM FLOW;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; FLOODING; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GIS; METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STREAMFLOW; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPORAL CYCLE; WATER RESOURCE;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 84880603640     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2013.06.029     Document Type: Article

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